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New exciting book about the use of digital media in everyday life (22.11.2022)
The 20th of February Professor Brita Ytre-Arne is releasing her latest book "Media Use in Digital Everyday Life".
CEDAS seminar 24 Nov 2022
High-fidelity biomolecular modelling (21.11.2022)
An exciting seminar about combining evolutionary optimization algorithms with experimental, atomistic resolution target data to create a semi-automated tool for building high-fidelity molecular dynamics models.
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Newest member of The Academy for Young Researchers: Erik Knudsen (17.10.2022)
The Academy for young researchers annonces their 11 new members for 2022-2026. With hard competition from over 50 applicants, our own Erik Knudsen made the cut.
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On the political agenda: Digital privacy! (03.10.2022)
The Commission for Digital Privacy gives their recommendations and propositions for the Norwegian government.
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Receives millions for project about masculinity and gaming (06.09.2022)
Professor Kristine Jørgensen and the Department of Information Science and Media Studies receives NOK 12 million from the Research Council of Norway to do research on men's subjective experiences of games as a gendered arena and thereby create better insight into how men experience the increased diversity in the world of gaming.
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CEDAS Networking Event 2022 (09.06.2022)
The Center for Data Science (CEDAS) is organizing a networking event, combining scientific sessions on foundational and applied data science with a teaching-related session, discussion groups, and social activities to further facilitate research collaboration among the center’s members (and beyond).
Hallvard Moe
ERC Grant for new research project (28.03.2022)
How prepared are we to get correct information and be engaged when it is needed? Media professor Hallvard Moe has been awarded a prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant to better understand citizen’s ability to get information and be engaged in democracy.
Rune Søholt
New PhD candidate at NORCE (22.03.2022)
Rune Søholt has started as a PhD candidate at the Media Poverty research project at NORCE lead by Torgeir Uberg Nærland.
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Visiting scholar Maria Faust at the Bergen Media Use Research Group (21.03.2022)
Maria Faust, a doctoral candidate from University of Leipzig, visits the Media Use Research Group in March
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Special issue in Digital Journalism: Advancing the Audience Turn in Journalism (21.03.2022)
Special issue in Digital Journalism: Advancing the Audience Turn in Journalism features articles from professor II Irene Costera Meijer, and professors Hallvard Moe and Brita Ytre-Arne
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Watching Storms from Space (03.03.2022)
This seminar will present some of the speakers' space-level AI research activities to assess storm-caused damage to infrastructure networks.
Hilde Sakariassen
New postdoctoral project at MUCS (02.03.2022)
Hilde Sakariassen has joined the MUCS team with her postdoctoral project "The tale of two cities – the duality of digital technology for inexperienced users in a societal crisis"
Data Science: The need for politics and creativity (17.02.2022)
Setting up data science institutions poses rather fundamental questions: What kind of institutions are we building? Who are we serving? What are the politics? In this talk I would like take stock of the larger context: a world lacking futures, fragmented academic disciplines, and the dystopian use of technology.
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Designing Audio/Visual Narratives (16.02.2022)
Recovering from serious illness involves a bodily and psychosocial reorientation in everyday life. Survivors of gynecological cancer often experience bodily changes, fear of cancer recurrence, and changes in sexual health...
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Proceedings of the ACM on Human- Computer Interaction (16.02.2022)
It is our great pleasure to welcome you to this issue of the Proceedings of the ACM on Human- Computer Interaction...
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Immersive Virtual Reality (VR) (16.02.2022)
This paper explores performing Go-along interviews in Immersive Virtual Reality (VR).
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New PhD candidate has started at MUCS (14.01.2022)
Ida Kvilhaug Sekanina has started as a PhD candidate at the MUCS project.
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Why are We Acting Against the Pandemic, but Not Against the Climate Crisis? (08.12.2021)
“We must equip ourselves to understand how people react and take in information when something new, unknown, and dangerous hits us”, says professor Brita Ytre-Arne, head of the Norwegian-Danish interdisciplinary project Media Use in Crisis Situations (MUCS).

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